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In 2019, the Walloon government launched ” DigitalWallonia4.ai” , a regional program for the appropriation and development of AI in Wallonia. As part of this program, the TRAIL (Trusted A.I. Labs) initiative was set up in September 2020 aiming to mobilize the research...

Last April, the Ministerial Delegation for Digital Health (DNS) published its recommendations for best practicesfor integrating ethics into the development of artificial intelligence solutions in health: implementing “ethics by design”. Here is a look at this report. ...

It is estimated that in France, 20,000 to 30,000 hectares are artificially created each year. Artificialization of soils has consequences on biodiversity but also on global warming, flooding… The French government has asked the IGN to map the impacts of human activity on th...

While they regularly provide fascinating results, large artificial intelligence models are generally black boxes: we don’t know exactly how they calculate their answers and many elements are not made public. The BigScience project, involving a thousand researchers in a part...

On July 4, the Institut Curie, France’s leading cancer center, announced the signing of a five-year strategic framework agreement with Janssen France, a Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical company. Johnson & Johnson Innovation supports this partnership, which aims to a...

It was at the Eurosatory international trade show, dedicated to land and airborne Defense and Security, that HGH, a pioneer in infrared technology, unveiled on June 13 its new artificial intelligence module integrated with SPYNEL 360° long-range surveillance: GAIA™. It was in 198...

At the end of June, LaSource, a Paris-based BtoB agency focused on sports, digital and new technologies, announced that Move.ai, a London-based company with expertise in motion capture and augmented reality, would be the second start-up to join its LeStudio program, a gas pedal f...

In late June, Teledyne FLIR, a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, announced the release of Prism AI, a software framework that provides object classification, detection and tracking, enabling automotive engineers to quickly integrate thermal cameras into advanced d...

Artificial intelligence is at the heart of the digital transformation of our society. For industrialists, it is a tremendous asset, but RDI projects are very expensive. Calls for projects are a real opportunity for companies to carry out their research and thus develop, integrate...

The French Presidency of the European Union (PFUE), which ended on June 30, was strongly marked by the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Since the beginning of the year, despite the context, France has been working on a sovereign digital Europe at the service of citizens, companies and...

On Wednesday, July 6, Atos presented the three winning teams of the Atos IT Challenge, an international student competition whose theme was ” How data from space can advance humanity”. The company also announced, in partnership with GENCI (Grand Equipement National de...

The HI_DOS program is aimed at Quebec SMEs and is designed to support the security certification and regulatory approval processes as well as the interoperability activities of companies wishing to commercialize connected objects in the healthcare field. Implemented by the Regrou...

In Britain, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) has unveiled its first-ever Artificial Intelligence Defence Strategy, which emphasizes three principles: ambition, innovation and accountability. In 2021, England confirmed through the publication of theIntegrated Review, its desire to st...

France and Germany have been cooperating since 1963 in scientific and technological fields and, since 2019, have intensified their cooperation in the field of research and digital transformation, especially in AI and disruptive innovations. The ANR and the German Federal Ministry...

The technological pillar of the Grand Challenge “Securing, certifying and making reliable systems based on artificial intelligence” launched by the French government, Confiance.ai is the most important technological research program of the #AIforHumanity plan, which a...

Benzenoids are a sub-family of hydrocarbons (molecules composed only of hydrogen and carbon atoms) whose carbon atoms form hexagons. The electronic properties of these molecules, notably their conductivity and magnetism, suggest that they could be used in nanoelectronics, but the...

How can we better manage artificial intelligence, fight against bias and abuse, and work towards the implementation of a trusted AI based on transparency, without hindering innovation? To answer these questions, the Think Tank Digital New Deal presented its report “Trusted ...

Researchers at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) in Singapore, have developed an anomaly detection model that uses machine learningto identify the presence of possible microbial contamination within minutes. The MIT Research Enterprise in Singapore ha...

Numerous studies are conducted throughout students’ schooling, some of which relate to the academic success of girls and their differences in orientation compared to boys when they enter high school. The study conducted by the Centre francilien Hubertine Auclert aims to hig...

In early June, the EU Council adopted conclusions on the actions taken and the next steps to be taken to ensure the protection of Europeans against terrorism. Among other things, it calls on Member States to cooperate, to exchange information on terrorists, to ban terrorists from...

On June 30, the Village by CA Paris organized the fifth edition of the Village Awards in collaboration with Les Echos Entrepreneurs and Alliancy, a ceremony that aims to reward the best cooperation between start-ups and large companies in four categories: the most effective coope...

On April 21, 2021, the European Commission presented its draft regulation of AI. More recently, last December, Slovenia, which held the EU Council Presidency at the time, submitted a compromise text concerning this draft law aimed at prohibiting social scoring, framing the use of...

As part of the “La Poste 2030, committed to you” strategic plan, La Poste group has created the Consumer and Digital Branch (BGPN) in 2021, with the aim of achieving customer satisfaction. To achieve this goal, it announced on June 28 an investment of €800 million bet...

A Symposium on Artificial Intelligence is organized on July 12 and 13, 2022 in Paris in honor of the 20th anniversary of the MIT-France Fund. This fund was created in 2000 within the MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives) and finances the program of the same...

Summer is here and it’s already time for the new issue of ActuIA, your artificial intelligence magazine! For this issue #8 of ActuIA, available from July 6th in newsstands and in digital version, we have prepared a perfect program to accompany you at the office or on your v...

Druide informatique announced at the end of May the winner of the 6th Antidote Fellowship in Automatic Language Processing (ALP). Victor Schmidt, a doctoral student under the supervision of Professor Yoshua Bengio, founder of the Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence Mila, ...

At the end of May, François Pelligrini and Mathieu Cunche, co-presidents of the CNIL-Inria Prize Jury, presented the privacy award to a Spanish-American research team for their paper ” 50 Ways to Leak Your Data: An Exploration of Apps’ Circumvention of the Android Per...

The pandemic has had a strong impact on airlines. Since the lifting of the health restrictions, they have to face another problem: despite a high demand, they have to cancel flights due to the lack of personnel. Lufthansa has found a solution for its cabin crews: Virtual Aviation...

The decision was announced on June 13 in Kajaani, Finland, at the inauguration of LUMI, Europe’s fastest supercomputer: EuroHPC JU, the European Joint Undertaking for High-Performance Computing, has selected Forschungszentrum Jülich, a partner of the Gauss Center for Superc...

Atos and HarfangLab signed a partnership agreement at the International Cybersecurity Forum 2022 (FIC) in Lille in early June. Atos intends to strengthen its offer of sovereign hosted managed cybersecurity services, respectful of French laws and carried out in France, thanks to H...

With the Threat Matrix solution, FIFA is taking another step forward in its commitment to combat online abuse and protect its players and staff. On International Anti-Hate Speech Day, FIFA is offering an AI-based plan. A report published by FIFA on the occasion of the Internation...

In 2018, Safran Electronics & Defense had won the Science and Technology Project (PST) Furious from the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA), aimed at developing three robot demonstrators. After conclusive field trials, the DGA has just awarded it a new contractual tranche...

The London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square was the venue for the SC Media Awards 2022, the cybersecurity industry’s coveted and prestigious awards ceremony on June 21. Vectra, a leader in AI-based cyber threat detection and response for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises, w...

Specializing in neurotechnologies and artificial intelligence, the Marseille-based start-up Inclusive Brains has created a device capable of imitating certain mechanisms of the human brain. The company has teamed up with the CCIAMP to promote the professional inclusion of people ...

On June 8, Owkin, a French-American start-up specializing in AI and federated learning applied to medical research, announced that it had entered into a multi-year strategic collaboration with pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb to apply its AI capabilities to clinical tr...

Sputnik, in 1957, opened the way to the conquest of space. Since then, many satellites have been launched, either for scientific research like the ISS or for commercial purposes, like Quantum. Some have exploded, collided with others: objects ranging from the last stages of launc...

Morocco, Spain and France are currently experiencing a very significant heat wave that surprises meteorologists because it arrives early. With climate change, this phenomenon is likely to recur every year, and perhaps even earlier in the season. If this year, it raises many conce...

The ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) and the ESF (European Social Fund Plus) aim to strengthen social and economic cohesion within the EU and, to this end, finance numerous projects. The University of Mons (UMONS) responded to their first call for projects of the 2021-20...

In a new sign of the popularization of artificial intelligence, Mila’s scientific director and Université de Montréal professor Yoshua Bengio has been included in the 2023 Petit Larousse Illustré, joining the ranks of such Quebec luminaries as the late surgeon Lucille Teasd...

METAFORA Biosystems, a company that has developed an AI-powered flow cytometry platform to generate better in vitro diagnostics (IVD) and more effective cell therapies, announced in early June the launch of METAflow, a cloud-based software for automated multidimensional clusterin...

After the Uvalde mass shooting, which left 21 people dead at an elementary school in Texas last May, Axon, formerly Taser International, announced the development of a ” Taser-equipped drone to deal with mass shootings,” claiming that the device would ” potentia...

To engage and employ scientists and engineers from the Brittany region in researching the technologies that will shape the metaverse, Inria, the French national research institute for digital science and technology, and InterDigital, a mobile and video technology research and dev...

The EDF Group and INRIA, the national research institute for digital science and technology, signed an agreement in 2016 that led them to collaborate on some 30 projects. It was at the VivaTech 2022 trade show that they announced their intention to strengthen their scientific and...

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and the Mouvement des entreprises de France presented the first barometer “Digital Maturity in France” at the REFnum 2019. It was at the VivaTech show, as part of REFnum 2022, this June 15, that they presented a “State of play o...

Orca AI, a computer vision startup that has developed an automated situational awareness platform for safe maritime navigation, has partnered with Maran Tankers Management (MTM) to equip the latter’s tankers with its AI technology and thus enable crews to make the right dec...

The Alpine A110 Sastruga was presented for the first time last April at the Grand Palais Ephémère, during the Art Paris exhibition, which aims to make contemporary art accessible to a wider public. More recently, on May 25th, it made its road debut before the Monaco Grand Prix, i...

While based in Montreal since 2018, Samsung’s AI Center recently announced the opening of new premises downtown. The new lab, twice the size of the previous one, will be able to accommodate the team, which also plans to expand, whose goal is to improve the quality of wirele...

Atos and OVHcloud, the European leader in cloud computing, announced in November 2021 that they would expand their partnership. On June 9, the two companies announced a partnership in the field of quantum computing: Atos’ Quantum Learning Machine (QLM) will be available ...

ActuIA is a partner of this new edition of VivaTech, the leading event of new technologies in France. We allow you to follow VT News, the official live video streaming of the event. Translated from Visionnez le web streaming VT News à l’occasion de Viva Technology 2022...

According to The Irish Times, Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee announced in late May that her department was drafting legislation to allow the Garda Siochena, the country’s national police force, to use facial recognition technology to analyze CCTV footage of serious cr...

Come and experience the future with Viva Technology, the biggest tech and start-up event in Europe! From June 15th to 18th, the 6th edition of Viva Technology will be held in Paris Porte de Versailles. During 4 days, the world’s greatest business leaders, start-ups, investo...

In early June, Sanofi Pharmaceuticals, whose ambition is to be a leader in digital health, announced the launch of Accelerator, an internal digital gas pedal that aims to develop products and solutions and transform the practice of medicine through digital, data and artificial in...

Diabeloop, a company based in Isère, has designed a connected device that mimics the functioning of the pancreas to improve the management of type 1 diabetes. On June 2, it announced a €70 million Series C financing round led by LBO France to accelerate its international deployme...

If it is still a buzz word for its initiates, the Metaverse is no longer a novelty for its enthusiasts because it has existed for more than 20 years. On the B2B side, opportunities already exist and capital-intensive industries are already using the undeniable monetization potent...

Nice is the French city with the largest number of cameras, with 3,865 in its Urban Supervision Center to date. Thirty-two of them will be equipped with Cityvision software from Wintics, a classification and counting solution based on AI that will allow the analysis of dangerous ...

Kurage, a Lyon-based start-up, has set itself the mission of restoring mobility to those who have partially or completely lost it and enabling them to (re)practice sports and physical activity. Its Neuroskin solution, based on deep learningand neuromuscular remobilization by elec...

At the University Hospital of Dijon, researchers are currently testing an algorithm to screen for child abuse by identifying pathologies and injuries during hospitalizations of very young children. In the US, in many states, screening tools are already being used by child protect...

On April 5, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced the launch of the 8th edition of its start-up acceleration program to which some 50 companies responded. After a first selection in May, on June 9, it unveiled the twelve young innovative French companies that were selected d...

In 1972, Alain Colmerauer and his team in Marseille proposed a first version of the logic programming language Prolog. This work, enriched by a collaboration with Robert Kowalski of the University of Edinburgh, laid the foundations of today’s logic programming. Prolog and l...